London City Helicport will serve Eastenders

A new heliport is about to open at Damyns Hall airfield, near Upminster, Essex. London City Heliport is just 20 minutes by car to Canary Wharf, the docklands business centre, and is just outside London City air traffic zone.

Helicentre Aviation will operate the heliport and offer a full range of services including charter flights, and PPL(H) and commercial flight training. It’s also building 20,000 sq ft of hangarage and a business lounge, and will be able to offer a full management service.

A Jet A1 refuelling facility is being installed to complement the existing Avgas pump. Chris Line, managing director of Helicentre Aviation, said: “This is one of the most exciting new developments in travel around the London area in recent years.

It allows business people in the City, Canary Wharf and the East to travel at a speed and level of comfort they could only have dreamed about.” Helicentre is already operating at Coventry. The expansion in east London has the support of local agencies working on the regeneration of the area and the buildup to the 2012 Olympics.
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● A Night Rating Scholarship is on offer from Helicentre to encourage would-be helicopter CPLs. Contact Adam Hitchcox T. 07711 531744.